Craig Barrow

Barrow was born in 1876 in Athens, Georgia, to Middleton Pope Barrow and Sarah Church Craig.^[1] His father represented the State of Georgia in the United States Senate.^[2]

He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1896 and the University of Maryland in 1900 and undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Breslau in Breslau, Germany.^[3]

In 1902, he began medical practice as a surgeon in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked at the Georgia Infirmary for 36 years and was involved in the establishment of the Central of Georgia Hospital in 1927.^[1][4] He was also head physician in the children's department of the Telfair Hospital.^[5]

He married twice; firstly, to Alice Barker, who died in 1903, then, in 1906, to Elfrida De Renne, a direct descendant of Georgia colonist Noble Jones. He had three children with Elfrida: Craig Jr., Elfrida and Muriel.^[6] In 1938, the family moved to Wormsloe,^[1] the plantation established by Jones two hundred years earlier. They also owned Yonholme, a summer home in Hendersonville, North Carolina.^[3]

Barrow died in 1945, aged 69, having undergone an unsuccessful operation at the Central of Georgia Hospital.^[7] He was interred at Wormsloe burial ground. His widow, Elfrida, survived him by 25 years and was buried beside him upon her death.^[1]

In 2004, Craig Barrow III, son of Craig Barrow Jr., established the Craig Barrow Fund to honor his father and grandfather.^[1]